Word: lording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...holds responsible for war crimes, emerged from the Geneva talks to declare portentously, "We should all be satisfied. No one else need die in Bosnia and Herzegovina." In fact, that kind of talk is premature, since most of the important details have yet to be settled. And as Lord Owen, the European Community's negotiator, noted, "There are all sorts of people out there who want to continue the war, on all three sides...
...Black Bible Chronicles (African American Family Press; $14.95) remains the most striking and the most controversial of the lot. The God here is one mean dude, sounding at times more like a gang leader than the Lord. Warning Noah of the Flood, he says, "I'm fed up with what's happenin' 'round here. These folks ain't what's happenin' anymore, so I'm gonna do what I gotta do, and end things once and for all. Man, I'm gonna blow the brothers clear outta the water...
Back in the orphanage from their market raid, the children live a modern version of Lord of the Flies. The school was once home to more than 170 children, but last winter the U.N. agreed to evacuate them. All those ages three to 14 were taken out by convoy and sent to Denmark. The older children say they would have gone too, but one of the convoys was attacked and two children were killed, so the U.N. stopped the evacuation...
...with the mostly erroneous "discoveries" and deductions made about them in the present. At a deeper level the piece is a meditation on the chanciness of fame and the meaning of genius, strongly suggesting that the 19th century girl was a considerably greater figure than her celebrated house guest, Lord Byron. At its most profound, Stoppard's elegant dialogue addresses the competing principles of order and disorder in the universe...
...this instance his eye is trained largely on a glamorous slice of the "English leisure class": a jet-setting arms dealer, Dicky Roper, who is charming enough to be a Cabinet minister; his young plaything of a mistress; and such attendants as Sandy Langbourne, a sulky, beautiful, ponytailed lord with a gift for extermination...